Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield was 11,408 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Costa Rica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Costa Rica is 11,408 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.6% on the previous year and up 14.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Costa Rica peaked at 22,341 kg/ha in 1981 and was at its lowest, 5,005 kg/ha, in 2002.
Costa Rica ranks 23rd of 50 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield in Costa Rica, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,020 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,039 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1963 | 5,982 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1964 | 6,000 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1965 | 6,439 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1966 | 7,034 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1967 | 7,483 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1968 | 8,982 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 1969 | 9,914 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 1970 | 10,018 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1971 | 10,000 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1972 | 10,833 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1973 | 12,881 kg/ha | +18.9% |
| 1974 | 14,000 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1975 | 15,585 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 1976 | 15,544 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1977 | 16,132 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1978 | 15,573 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1979 | 15,502 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1980 | 15,007 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1981 | 22,341 kg/ha | +48.9% |
| 1982 | 19,572 kg/ha | -12.4% |
| 1983 | 15,472 kg/ha | -21.0% |
| 1984 | 20,192 kg/ha | +30.5% |
| 1985 | 19,611 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1986 | 19,958 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1987 | 20,552 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1988 | 21,127 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1989 | 6,700 kg/ha | -68.3% |
| 1990 | 6,700 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 6,700 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 6,700 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 6,700 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 6,700 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 6,682 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1996 | 6,990 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1997 | 6,990 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 6,990 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 6,990 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 6,874 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2001 | 8,621 kg/ha | +25.4% |
| 2002 | 5,005 kg/ha | -41.9% |
| 2003 | 6,229 kg/ha | +24.5% |
| 2004 | 6,668 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 2005 | 6,464 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2006 | 7,299 kg/ha | +12.9% |
| 2007 | 9,000 kg/ha | +23.3% |
| 2008 | 13,104 kg/ha | +45.6% |
| 2009 | 8,696 kg/ha | -33.6% |
| 2010 | 9,000 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2011 | 9,474 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2012 | 8,889 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 2013 | 11,111 kg/ha | +25.0% |
| 2014 | 10,000 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 2015 | 11,000 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 2016 | 11,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 11,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 8,975 kg/ha | -18.4% |
| 2019 | 10,608 kg/ha | +18.2% |
| 2020 | 11,916 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 2021 | 9,956 kg/ha | -16.5% |
| 2022 | 11,298 kg/ha | +13.5% |
| 2023 | 11,345 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 11,408 kg/ha | +0.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,099 kg/ha | 5,982 kg/ha | 9,914 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 13,607 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 16,132 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 18,053 kg/ha | 6,700 kg/ha | 22,341 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,814 kg/ha | 6,682 kg/ha | 6,990 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,796 kg/ha | 5,005 kg/ha | 13,104 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,106 kg/ha | 8,889 kg/ha | 11,111 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,184 kg/ha | 9,956 kg/ha | 11,916 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 4.56 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0337 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 672.15 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.57 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2027 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 3.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 3.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Costa Rica?
- Plantains and cooking bananas — yield in Costa Rica was 11,408 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 22,341 kg/ha in 1981.
- What is the lowest plantains and cooking bananas — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,005 kg/ha in 2002.
- How does Costa Rica rank for plantains and cooking bananas — yield?
- Costa Rica ranks 23rd out of 50 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plantains and cooking bananas — yield rising or falling in Costa Rica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 14.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Costa Rica data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Plantains and cooking bananas — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.